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This is a big year for the Toronto International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's a great place to catch the big titles likely to be making headlines over the coming year, and it often picks future award winners.
The festival runs from 4 to 14 September.
View Films by Strand:
- Centrepiece
- Discovery
- Festival Street
- Gala Presentations
- Luminaries
- Midnight Madness
- Platform
- Shorts
- Special Presentations
- TIFF Classics
- TIFF Docs
- Wavelengths
View previous years coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival festival:
Toronto Latest Reviews
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
A food influencer secretly struggles with bulimia as she navigates online fame, close friendships, and a painful past.
A glimpse of everyday reality for people living in Gaza in 2024.
Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
A boy born into a family of gangsgters is taken in by a kabuki theatre actor and finds a talent for the craft.
An epic fable inspired by the life of Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, a radical religious movement that began in the late 1700s.
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